Camera Obscura

An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age (livre en anglais)

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de Sarah Kofman

Type: Essais
Sujet: Théorie
Mots Clés: idéologie, théorie
Année d'édition: 1998
Editeur: Cornell University Press
Langue: anglais

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Broché • 112 pages
13,5 x 22 cm

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-8014-8593-2
978-0-8014-8593-0

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Marx, Freud, Nietzsche--in vastly different ways all three employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this classic book--at last available in an English translation--the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman offers an extended reflection on this metaphor. She contrasts the mechanical function of the camera obscura as a kind of copy machine, rendering a mirror-image of the work, with its use in the writings of master thinkers. In her opening chapter on Marx, Kofman provides a reading of inversion as necessary to the ideological process. She then explores the metaphor of the camera obscura in Freud's description of the unconscious. For Nietzsche the camera obscura is a "metaphor for forgetting." Kofman asks here whether the "magical apparatus" of the camera obscura, rather than bringing about clarity, serves some thinkers as fetish. Camera Obscura is a powerful discussion of a metaphor that dominates contemporary theory from philosophy to film.

À propos de l'auteur :
SARAH KOFMAN held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Paris I. Among her numerous books are Socrates: Fictions of a Philosopher and The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings, both published by Cornell. WILL STRAW is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Communications at McGill University.

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